and a certain scribe having come, said to him, `Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go;'
Ezra himself hath come up from Babylon, and he `is' a scribe ready in the law of Moses, that Jehovah God of Israel gave, and the king giveth to him -- according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him -- all his request.
`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.
where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?
and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that ye may send me forward whithersoever I go,